The IMF MattersAnd the decision to fund it appropriately is the most important one in the world next week. (3/28/09)

Bust the Slump FirstThe president spelled out impressive proposals for the environment, health care, and education on Tuesday night. But they didn't strike at the heart of our most pressing economic problems. (2/29/09)

TNRtv: Will Geithner Burn Small Businesses? (7/15/09)Johnson argues that the government's handling of CIT, one of the country's biggest lenders to small companies, will speak volumes about which financial institutions have the ear of the Treasury.

TNRtv: Is Obama Finally Governing the Banks? (5/6/09)The results of Bank of America's stress test seem to imply that the government is finally pushing back against the big banks--the ones without political connections, anyway.

Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, a widely cited website on the global economy, and is a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers. Mr. Johnson appears regularly on NPR's Planet Money podcast in the Economist House Calls feature, is a weekly contributor to NYT.com's Economix, and has a video blog feature on The New Republic's website. He is co-director of the NBER project on Africa and President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (term of office 2008-2009).

Professor Johnson is an expert on financial and economic crises. As an academic, in policy roles, and with the private sector, over the past 20 years he has worked on crisis prevention, macroeconomic damage limitation and growth recoveries around the world. His research continues to focus on how policymakers can limit the impact of negative shocks and manage the risks faced by their countries. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, Professor Johnson was the International Monetary Fund's economic counselor (chief economist) and director of its research department.